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Surgical Pathology Clinics

W.B. Saunders · United States · Est. 1984

ISSN1875-9157

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.598

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.908

Total Worksi

1,233

Total Citationsi

11,347

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.87

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Surgical Pathology Clinics focuses on information essential to practicing surgical pathologists, including the latest techniques, approaches, and detailed discussions on differential diagnosis. It also covers clinical, morphologic, immunohistochemical, and genetic features of specific conditions like skin tumors with neuroendocrine phenotype.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1984

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,233

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

W.B. Saunders

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1875-9157

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.6k

2019

2020

822

2021

422

2022

356

2023

167

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Pathology and Forensic MedicineQ2

SurgeryQ2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

SurgeryPathology and Forensic Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

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Frequently asked questions about Surgical Pathology Clinics

Is Surgical Pathology Clinics a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Surgical Pathology Clinics: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Surgical Pathology Clinics?

Surgical Pathology Clinics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.598.

Is Surgical Pathology Clinics indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Surgical Pathology Clinics is indexed in Scopus.